“April is the cruellest month.”
Today is cloudy and it will rain again. We have been inundated with rain, but the last two days have been so lovely I guess I shouldn’t complain. Besides, April showers bring May flowers.
When I was in the eighth grade, we took advantage of Sister Hildegard. She was quite old, and we were too much for her to handle. I remember one kid who dumped a little of his milk into the basket every few days. He’d show Sister Hildegard, and she’d let him leave to clean the basket. He was always gone a few hours. She never noticed. I had a friend who found learning difficult. During a test she’d call me out loud from the other side of the room and ask for help. I’d write some of the answers on a small piece of paper and then ask Sister Hildegard if I could get up to throw the trash away. On the way to the basket I’d drop the answers on my friend’s desk. I know it was cheating, but I always thought it didn’t count if I was helping my friend. I saw my friend a few years back at a reunion. I hadn’t seen her for years. She gave me a hug and told people I had helped her graduate from the eighth grade.
Sister Hildegard used to go crazy sometimes. She’d scream at us and say that when we graduated she’d write on the board in huge letters, “Thank God they are gone.” She always mentioned us and the devil in the same sentence as kindred spirits. Sister Hildegard always liked me. I was never mean.
Nala stole an egg yesterday. I had put it on the counter. I was right there beside the counter, but I didn’t see her. When I went to grab the eggs to cook them, I noticed one was missing. Nala went out the dog door, her tell when she has stolen food. I looked and watched her go into the yard. I could see the shape of the egg in her mouth. I wonder if she ate the shell.
Today I will clean. I will water plants and change my bed. I will put my clean clothes away. I will not get dressed, my concession to slothness.
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April 11, 2024 at 12:17 pm
Hi Kat,
Tomorrow will be both my 77th birthday and my daughter’s thirtieth birthday. I have taken the three days off from yesterday to celebrate with her. My daughter has Down’s Syndrome which means she has a chromosomal disability by having an extra one of chromosome 21. This means that every cell has 47 instead of 46 chromosomes. She was born on my 47th birthday and I was born in 1947. What more can I say? Numbers don’t lie. 🙂
Tonight we are going to dinner at an all you can eat Japanese restaurant. It’s not a buffet but the waiter will bring each person up to five dishes per each round. Each person can order as many rounds as you can eat. Each portions are smaller dishes similar to a Japanese version of Dim Sum.
The weather here has been wet all week until today but it’s been very windy. Living at the southern end of tornado alley makes April our second wettest and the stormiest month of the year. Any time there are thunderstorms there’s the possibility of hail damage or worse a tornado. We survived a Tornado in the fall of 2019. One tornado is one too many in a lifetime.
April 11, 2024 at 8:44 pm
Hi Bob,
Happy Birthday! I hope you and your daughter have the best day!
I do know what Down’s syndrome is. The high school had a class of mostly Down Syndrome kids. At the request of their teacher I was the administrator in charge of the class. I used to visit often and occasionally one of the student’s was brought to my office for discipline. Such serendipitous numbers!
I would like that restaurant. There are no Japanese restaurants here on the cape as far as I know. I haven’t ever eaten Japanese.
The cape had tornado a while back. It did little damage except for one motel which had extensive damage.
We are getting more rain tonight and it will come with wind. We have had a few of those same storms the last few weeks.